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Show ' WESTERKIRON CO. JEVaOPING Much Activity Reported in the ! Vicinity of Heist and the Hamblin Valley. COUNTRY BEING PAST SETTLED AND IMPROVED f Hciflt Has About 0,000 Acres Seeded to Fall Wheat and Other Crops. Now 50 Families There Yesterday morning C. L. Heist, W. B. Hogan, Leo G. Joyce and Ernest A. Pickering were in Cedar City on their way home from Parowan, where they hud been to make final proof on their respective homesteads at Heist, , this county. ' Seen by n representative of The Record, they talked enthusiastically and entertainingly about conditions in their locality. Already Has Fifty Families. "H ," Nada is locuted on the east side of I tho tracks of the Salt Lake Route, and about mid-way between Lund and J Nada. It has a rapidly increasing population, comprising at the present ' Z time about 50 families. The home- f stcuders reside on their respectivo ) farms, for the most part, so that the H, town is very much scattered, but a lot of good homes arc being built and it permanent improvements made. Good Jjj, water for culinary purposes as wejl as , " for home gardens is procured at a -' depth of from 50 to 150 feet, and fev nearly all the settlers are putting ' F down wells. The subterranean sup- ply of water seems to be well nigh jT " ' jg, InoxhaustJblo, as pumping does not fa of the water ih their wells. j, t Large Acreage Will be .Cropped. $ The land in this locality is a sandy , loam, well adapted to the production j " of arid wheat and other dry land v crops, and a large acreage was seed- !! ed to various crops last fall. Heist Brothers (for whom the place was named) & Hogan, have 3,000 acres J planted, 500 acres of which is in dry land wheat. Various other settlers of the loculity have unother 3,000 I acres planted, and if the rabbits do ' not interfere, they feel confident of raising some good crops, t Two Large Tractors are Busy. Two large gasolino tractors, besides 14 head of horses, are being used on T the farm of tho company, Heist Bros. & Hogan, and a large acreage is fast J being brought under tho plow. They ' predict that in a very short time it i will bo unnecessary for Iron county I to import any bread stuff, but that on - , tho contrary wo will be shipping a largo quantity out of tho county each r year. Road to Hamblin Valley. " i .One of Iho most important improve ments that arc under way in that lo- j cality at present is a road from the Escalanto valley in which Heist is , . situated directly north for a distance of about seven miles into the Hamblin valley, which is also in this county f and is being rapidly settled up. Tho people arc determined that tho road I shall be built, oven if they havo to do .the entire work themselves, but they feel that they are entitled to some aid " from tho county, and will likely pc- !" tition tho commissioners at their next j meeting. With the exception of about f. a mile, the road will all be easy of t construction, and if they can get the, j uso of tho county grader they havo ", tractors and can soon build tho grade. ' I , For about a milo tho road would bo along tho hillside, necessitating a lit- , fe tie dugway, but the rocks that would fr. be encountered aro small and loose, J f so that there would be practically no 1 blasting to do. s The representatives from there we h have above referred to aro not at all ft, lucking in faith in their country, and ," ("Wjife evidently of tho typo that does ' ? , XSqffW They say that they will bo L "' Tady for a school and a voting dis- X' trict this full, and oxpect to havo a j I voting vopulntion of from 75 to 100. 1 f ' They aro certainly very pleasant 2 i gentlemen to meet. 4 4 |